Collin says hello…in Czech. Brandon find happiness in pizza. We discuss…a new book genre!! (to us)

Hello in Czech!
Schools out…for the summer!!
Brandon’s responsible…
Due to previous conversation
Rock-a-Doodle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VA0t6A4mHA
The world sucks, we should be finding happiness in pizza
Small ranting…
Saw my stairs for the first time
Summer Reading Program
Top 5 Sci-Fi Games

Assassin’s Creed
The Outer Worlds
Gears of War
Metro 2033
Cyberpunk 2077
Halo
BioShock
Star Wars…any of them

Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card (1985)
Orson Scott Card…kind of a jerk
Collin Haiku:

They smiled and explained
Everything after signing—
Too late for regrets.

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SPEAKERS

Brandon, Collin

Collin Funkhouser 00:00

Hey, welcome to Oh Brother, a podcast where we try to figure it all out with your hosts Brandon and Collin on this week's show, mostly Vern. Ahoy, ahoy! What's going on, Collin? I learned an amazing fact today.

Brandon 00:26

Do you know how you say hello in check?

Collin Funkhouser 00:30

No.

Brandon 00:32

Ahoy!

Collin Funkhouser 00:33

Wow! What? Why don't I have more listeners in the come on. How is that possible?

Brandon 00:47

I don't know, but that

Speaker 1 00:48

Brandon 00:49

that's a fact I learned today, and so I thought it was very important that we lead with that.

Speaker 1 00:59

You go,

Collin Funkhouser 01:00

this is spectacular, right? I'm discovering, man, discovering all sorts of things about myself that I didn't know. Yeah, you

Brandon 01:12

know how to say hello in check. It's, it's spelled a h o j in the Czech alphabet, I think they use like a Cyrillic type alphabet situation, so like,

Collin Funkhouser 01:22

okay, nice.

Brandon 01:24

I might be wrong there, but I think I'm pretty sure it was. I think they used that alphabet, so it's.. I think it's a Slavic language family. So,

Collin Funkhouser 01:32

okay, okay,

Brandon 01:35

so yeah, there you go.

Collin Funkhouser 01:37

I hang. no idea. Dang,

Speaker 2 01:41

bang,

Collin Funkhouser 01:41

my goodness. How exciting. I'm excited, that's for sure, for sure. Oh, well, so other than you've just, just blowing my mind over here, I'm having to get my notes out, and I'm not ready for this

Brandon 01:58

pretty good stuff. Other than that, school is now out, right? I believe, as the great, great, as the great poet of our time, Alice Cooper once said, school's out for the summer, so that was last week. It's pretty good, however, last day of school kind of annoying, because I found out at about 9o'clock maybe 930 in the morning, that I was responsible for moving all the things out of my classroom. Oh, this is exciting piece of information that I have never had to be responsible for before, so I had to. They were like, no, you guys need to move all your stuff out, and I was like, excuse me, what? So, so now I'm hyper paranoid that it won't be back in the spot where it's supposed to be, even though I drew them a beautiful map on my board, and I labeled all of, I label all of my stuff with like letters, so they don't have to worry about it, because I, I'm not going to put like brown table, because I have like five of those, so brown time, I label everything with the room number, and then the letter, right? I put, like, my room number, and then, like, a

Collin Funkhouser 03:27

for sure,

Brandon 03:28

right? And so I on my map, I just draw a big rectangle in the right, a,

Speaker 1 03:32

Brandon 03:34

to me this seems like very easy to follow and understand, but because, right, here's what I'm worried about, because the custodial staff was not responding, they did not move the big furniture out, so they don't have any reference about where it's supposed to go at

Speaker 1 03:57

all,

Brandon 03:57

just my beautiful map, but I was slightly worried that things would be in the wrong spot or in the wrong room. I'm gonna have to go chase them down again. That's happened, like guys, that's right here. I don't know, I know they got a lot to do. I tried to like put all my stuff over into it. Just was very annoying, so I had the children help me. So we just like last day school was like a half day, so we were like in the middle of watching a movie, and then I was like, "Oh, hey guys, guess what you're doing after lunch? That's right, moving desks. Hey, bang, how fun and exciting. And

Speaker 1 04:38

due to

Brandon 04:39

a previous conversation that we had had in class. Do you know what movie we watched on the last day of school? Collin,

Collin Funkhouser 04:44

due to a previous con,

Collin Funkhouser 04:46

not

Brandon 04:47

that I had with you, but

Collin 04:48

also,

Brandon 04:49

also technically on this show, we've talked about this before, but it's been a long time, but it is. It came up in class at one point. Okay, so guess, guess what we watched. I'm the last day of school calling.

Collin Funkhouser 05:01

I can't.. I know, I don't even know what it could have been. I mean, you didn't watch Ferris Bueller, so no, I don't.. I don't know this

Brandon 05:12

rock a doodle,

Speaker 1 05:13

how? no, what?

Brandon 05:33

Number one, it's free on YouTube right now, just so you know.

Speaker 1 05:36

And then

Brandon 05:40

I think it may potentially have been that way since the last time Aaron brought this up on the show, like ages ago, but, but, yeah, it came up in class at some point. I don't even really remember how they, like, said something. It was one of those things where I think they said something and it triggered something in my brain. I started chuckling to myself, and they were like, "What? And I was like, "All right, listen. And I briefly attempted to explain Rock Doodle, as Aaron did, and they were like, "What are you talking about, Seko? Guys, it's beautiful. Like, wait,

Collin Funkhouser 06:16

gonna be fine.

Brandon 06:17

They thought it was hilarious, so it's funny. So that's what we watched on last high school, and then we went and ate lunch, and then we moved desks around, so hooray.

Collin Funkhouser 06:30

Well, I'm glad you had some help, though.

Speaker 1 06:36

You know, yeah,

Brandon 06:37

it was pretty good. Um, so yeah, it's busy, busy week, right? Like, well, not this week, the end of last week, like we did that, and then Saturday we had Keen Save to go to, right, big birthday action, and then Sunday was another graduation party we had to go to, that one didn't take us long, so it was just about another one, so kind of winding down, and this week I've been doing nothing, Susan still has stuff to do, because she's like finishing up all her visits for like this week, and then she will also be done for the summer,

Collin Funkhouser 07:12

so all of the summer is,

Brandon 07:14

yeah, yeah, pretty open, so yeah, pretty good. We, I do have, I do have a sixth grade quote of the week, right? The last one of the season. I'm gonna cheat this, this though, because this one's mine.

Collin Funkhouser 07:26

Okay,

Brandon 07:26

you know what, that's mine.

Collin Funkhouser 07:27

You haven't happened yet. As the

Brandon 07:29

last one,

Collin Funkhouser 07:30

yes,

Brandon 07:31

we can make it. We can make it mine, right?

Collin Funkhouser 07:35

I'll allow

Brandon 07:36

it. Yeah, we were talking about something, and they were.. oh, nevermind. I'm supposed to give you the first, no context, first, right? Yeah, the world sucks. We should be finding happiness in pizza

Collin Funkhouser 07:50

here, here,

Brandon 07:52

right? It's like they were, they were doing, they were talking about pizza toppings, right? And, of course, the meme, they were like, "Oh my god, will those belong on pizza, and I was like, listen, here's my official stance on this. We should be eating pizza and being happy. I don't really care what you put on your pizza, doesn't matter to me at all, because I don't have to eat it. I can order my own pizza.

Collin Funkhouser 08:17

Turns out,

Brandon 08:18

and yeah, that's a thing that you can do. You don't have to worry about what other people are putting on their pizza. You can just eat

Speaker 1 08:26

it.

Brandon 08:27

You can just eat pizza and be happy.

Collin Funkhouser 08:29

Yeah,

Brandon 08:30

and you can like have camaraderie and eat pizza together and be married. And so we don't need to worry about that. It's fine, like it's stop hating just because it's like a meme. Like, I don't, I don't care. I'm not standing for this anymore. Do I want this? Not really. But, like, would I be lying to you if I said I have never eaten pineapple and pizza? Yes, of course, I would be lying to you, right? So I'm not gonna stand for the hate, okay? Just because I don't currently want it doesn't mean that at one time in my life I did not want it, right?

Collin Funkhouser 09:06

With the hate or the pizza, just like

Speaker 1 09:11

that's

Brandon 09:11

fair, that's fair clarification. Thank you.

Collin Funkhouser 09:14

Yeah, you know what, this.. you know, I feel like you're coming down this road, and soon you're just going to be breaking off into, like, you know, there comes a time when we heed a certain call, when the world must come together as one. There, the what, the, we are the world, right? We're keep going on.

Brandon 09:35

We are the children. No, we're fine. We see more pizza, right? That's all we need, right.

Collin Funkhouser 09:40

We're saving our own lives.

Speaker 2 09:43

Yeah,

Collin Funkhouser 09:44

Drew will make a better day, just you and me. Ah, why did this song do any better? Oh, that's right, because

Brandon 09:51

sung badly.

Collin Funkhouser 09:52

Is that the one? Is it the

Brandon 09:55

We Are the World one that like. Is that the ones like all the people?

Collin Funkhouser 10:02

Yes, and everybody is singing in it, and they're all like fighting for, they're all trying to outdo another.

Collin Funkhouser 10:09

But is

Brandon 10:09

that the one where there's a video of like Michael Jackson is there, and like he is listening to other people singing, and he's there's just this utter look of disgust,

Speaker 3 10:18

yes,

Brandon 10:18

on his face,

Speaker 1 10:20

yeah.

Speaker 3 10:22

that?

Brandon 10:28

Okay, let's make sure I was the right one. I don't know. There's another weird..

Collin Funkhouser 10:30

yeah, there's this.. there's this. Okay? Is it like it's like

Brandon 10:38

this is so

Collin Funkhouser 10:38

funny? Cindy

Brandon 10:39

Lopper, right? Is it like we're City Lopper singing, and he's just like,

Collin Funkhouser 10:42

oh my god, oh yeah, it's City Lopper, and I think, like, Michael Lewis, maybe Huey Lewis,

Brandon 10:49

yeah, that's Huey right,

Collin Funkhouser 10:51

yeah, that's yeah, and I think not in

Brandon 10:54

this picture, but to Huey Lewis's left, your right, I believe Cindy Lopper is standing over there, and so that is

Collin Funkhouser 11:02

it's fantastic. He sings because, yeah, because he was Lewis, and then City Lauper, and Michael Jackson's just standing there, going

Brandon 11:12

see his face going like

Collin Funkhouser 11:14

what is my career cup to

Brandon 11:19

quite bad,

Speaker 3 11:21

wonderful.

Brandon 11:23

Yeah, so they go, yeah.

Collin Funkhouser 11:25

Okay, well, okay, well, maybe not that, but

Brandon 11:34

also a potential time for later, right? Because more ranting things I've ranted about before, but a little small ranting, right, because I was spending so much googling, trying to figure out, like, about the book that we're going to talk about later, right, YouTube and stuff, thinks that I want to watch videos about book people, and I don't, right? I do not want to watch this, but I have also, I've watched a few people talking about, like, how terrible the book space on the internet is, because it has just devolved into, like, performative reading, and it, it upsets me a lot to like look at these people, right, and see what they're doing, and

Collin Funkhouser 12:30

so when you say you say performative reading, what are they like videoing themselves reading in a chair,

Brandon 12:38

so some of it is like these people that they're, they're like, ah, look at this obscene number of books that I read this month. What do you mean, obscene? Like, how? How did you do that? Right, more on that later. Spoilers, maybe they're not actually, but

Collin Funkhouser 12:55

like,

Collin Funkhouser 12:55

Speaker 1 12:55

way. Yeah,

Collin Funkhouser 12:57

gambling,

Speaker 2 12:59

how,

Brandon 13:00

but like the idea of reading like specifically so that you can curate your bookshelf for the backdrop of your

Speaker 1 13:13

video is like

Brandon 13:16

kind of horrifying,

Collin Funkhouser 13:17

kind of

Speaker 2 13:18

awesome. The fact

Brandon 13:19

that these people like not all of them, but, like, some of these people, like, are obsessed with, like, the special edition, like spraying the edges, like the paper edges of the book is, like, a thing, right? And so these, some of these people have books on their shelf the other way around, so that they're just looking at the edges, like the paper that's been sprayed in some sort of design, right, and like you, like, have no idea what that book is, like, I don't probably care what it is, but, like, that's the part that they're choosing to show you, right. Yes, these, I know, I don't know how you, you probably have feelings about this, right, but these are the people that, like, talk about, like, how they're super annoyed when a book series of books, like, don't have matching covers, and it's like the most annoying thing to them of all time, because they don't look pretty on the shelf,

Speaker 2 14:13

right?

Brandon 14:14

I think they might die if they know that whenever I read a book, if it's in the same series, they're not even next to each other on my shelf, they're

Collin 14:21

just like

Brandon 14:22

in a spot that was open.

Brandon 14:27

I kind of want to take a picture of my bookshelf and like put it on our thing, so that people can just like have a fit about this. It'd be great, right? And so I think, like, this idea of, like, reading for the trophy aspect, right? I saw this one video, I can't, I cannot confirm if this was satire or not, right, but it seemed to indicate that the person was just like listening to audiobooks and then buying the physical book to. It on their shelf after they did that.

Brandon 15:04

That's

Brandon 15:05

true. That is kind of terrible.

Collin Funkhouser 15:08

I, I know people who do this. Oh, okay. Now, what they say they

Brandon 15:13

might be real is

Collin Funkhouser 15:14

they will buy both, so that they can read some and listen to some, and it helps them move through the book quicker, is is what they claim they're actually

Brandon 15:27

just buying that. Well, first of all, you have to buy the book twice that way, which is like, why is capitalism coming from my reading? Like, what is happening here? What are you? What is that, but like a lot of the people, like a lot of the people online, like it turns out some of what they're doing is they are just listening to the audiobooks at like warp speed,

Speaker 1 15:54

yeah,

Brandon 15:55

right. And then I discovered that there are people on the interwebs that talk about books, this is not, this is not, this is by this is definitely not everyone, right?

Collin Funkhouser 16:07

Some allegedly

Brandon 16:09

subgroup of people, allegedly, I'm pretty sure this is confirmed. Okay,

Collin Funkhouser 16:13

for legal purposes.

Brandon 16:15

Oh, yeah, yeah, alleged, they won't read anything, but the dialog in the book.

Speaker 2 16:28

Oh yeah,

Brandon 16:30

like they don't read the prolog, they don't read the scene descriptions, and a lot of there are a set of people that I think only will read books that are in the first person, because they cannot fathom that. I mean, listen, I don't like over long descriptions of scenery either. You know, Oscar Wilde, but hello. Like, I don't care about the drapes, like this is deeply upsetting to me, right. And I think the thing that upsets me, like the cherry on top of all this, is that, like, the mass market paperback is like dying, right? The book of the people, yeah, the book of the masses, the book that is cheap and available to everyone is like not in demand because people don't find them esthetically pleasing.

Collin Funkhouser 17:34

This was the word while you, you were talking about performative reading, and then you were talking about the people who buy, who get the books for how they match and stuff. The word that I came up with, I was thinking about was the esthetically esthetic reading for the esthetics of it, of the perfectly curated bookshelf, and you're right, there are like paperbacks that I have that I absolutely adore that would never was just would not exist these days, they just go straight to the heart, and this is one A one A B C part of it is just the economics of everything's more expensive, and you can charge more of a premium on the hardbacks, so they just jump went right up market with that, and then there's also just, yes, it's they look better on a shelf, they feel better, they, and I'm going, what, how people always go, oh, well, man, look at the bookshelves of old, and you know, these these old books, those weren't put together for esthetics at all, right? No, that's just

Brandon 18:46

like the only way that books were bound.

Collin Funkhouser 18:48

How they had to be bound in leather, because that's all they had,

Brandon 18:51

that was it, that was the choice,

Collin Funkhouser 18:53

right? Yeah, and that's.. I get really frustrated at that, of they're trying to make a look of a library. Well, the library just looks the way, because that's how books are made, like just

Brandon 19:06

on there, just, yeah,

Collin Funkhouser 19:08

you know. And I sure do. I have some books that I haven't read, but I like, but I like the way they look, because they look old.

Brandon 19:16

Well, yeah, but like I have a few of those, but like, and also, like, Susan will buy hardback books, of like, I'm like, if they're an author that, like, she loves,

Collin 19:26

yeah,

Brandon 19:27

she'll buy them those, right? But like, everything else, she's like, man, I don't care, but like, if it's like one of the certain authors that she's like, no, I love this author, and she like reads everything they write, then she's, she wants that, right, but other than, man,

Collin Funkhouser 19:40

or maybe I'm just thinking of like I have some hardbacks, I had the option of buying like a hardback or a paperback, but I knew it was I was gonna treat that book kind of weird, but like more like a like a reference thing or more like an investment for more long term stuff, because what happens. Whenever you only have hardbacks available, the barrier to entry to reading and trying new things all of a sudden goes through the roof, because,

Brandon 20:08

yeah, those are more expensive. It's

Collin Funkhouser 20:10

cost right now. All of a sudden, it's like, oh, well, I was, I could have spent $5 on the paperback, but the only thing available is the $17 hardback.

Speaker 1 20:18

Yeah,

Collin Funkhouser 20:19

well,

Brandon 20:20

yeah, I don't really want that.

Collin Funkhouser 20:21

Never

Collin Funkhouser 20:21

mind, I'll just wait. And then what happens? Then you get the economics of, well, book sales go down, so they stop printing even more paperbacks, and go, oh yeah, it's just this weird cycle.

Brandon 20:33

Yeah, and that's why, like, and I have a lot of books on my bookshelf that these are not good books, right? These are not like class, these are these will never be like classics or like high literature, right? But they are, I would have a couple that are like that I haven't paperback, but like the a lot of them are just like you know random books that you buy and they're just like your guilty pleasure book, like my guilty pleasure book, is like the thriller fiction book, right? Like that is what I.. you can just like blast through that in like five seconds, and it's fine, like it's a romp. Usually, they're usually like historic. I have a lot of them that are like historical in some nature, right? They're kind of like historical fiction thriller, e, right? There's like some sort of artifact, it's like very Indiana Jonesy, right, like that. And so, like, these are not just the most well-written things of all time, yeah, but they are fun to read, you know? I mean, oh yeah, and so those are definitely books that need to be paperback, right? Like, this is just the book that you just get, and like, oh yeah, I'm just gonna rip through this, and it's, you know, it's pretty good, and like, whatever. Some of them are like hidden gems, for sure, but that's like how, you know, a lot of them work. You're like, oh my gosh, this was great. Do I know that this, and I'm looking at, too, like, right now, and I don't even remember really what that one's about, like it was fine, right? Like, whatever, like, it was fine, but like, was it amazing? No, like, it was so, like, not every book is gonna be worthy of like that much care and attention and hardback, and spread, like, you know what I mean, like that's just like my weird opinions, like some of these books I would never have bought them if they were like that, like I don't care that much, like

Collin Funkhouser 22:37

well, and the other thing that happens with this too is from the other side if I'm an author and I want to publish a book, but my options for publishing are only hardback. Well, then my cost to production is really high, and I better make sure that I have big audience to recoup those costs, and I might not if I'm, you know,

Brandon 23:01

like your first book, right? Yeah, like you're not gonna have that, like you just need to publish a paperback. Yeah, that's fine. Yeah, you know, that makes sense to me. But apparently that's not okay. Whatever, I just need to rant about this a little bit. I was explaining this to Susan. She's deeply upset by many of these points.

Collin Funkhouser 23:25

Yes, yes, yeah, it kind of takes the.. I think it just comes back to it stunts the joy of reading Megan, and I very early on agreed on a few things that we were going to be willing to invest in, like for our family. One of them was always good food, like we were always going to make sure we had good quality food, like just

Speaker 1 23:50

the other one

Brandon 23:50

was encyclopedia sets.

Collin Funkhouser 23:52

Second, the second one was we were always, we would be willing to spend money on books, and so I mean

Brandon 23:58

that's fair though, like right, like it's like everybody has a different, there's like a different cost benefit levels to this for everybody.

Collin Funkhouser 24:07

What I

Collin Funkhouser 24:07

don't like is that it makes reading, which should be easily, like I think reading should be like accessible, and yes, easy, and not like, oh my gosh, like this is what happened to the Nickelback, you know, the dime novels? Here's me getting old here, but like those allowed people to just go, 'huh, I don't know, let me see, like no barrier, no, like really wasn't. Yeah,

Brandon 24:32

I have a small little stack of those that I've picked up here and there and played, they're like the real thin, just like really bad quality, like paperbacks, but like I have a little stack of them, because they're cool, like, you know what I mean, like that's

Speaker 1 24:45

yeah,

Brandon 24:46

and it does, the barrier to entry is like zero, right, like that's the thing, right, like I think there's a myth too, like there a lot of this myth is like, oh my god. Gosh, like hardback books will last so much longer.

Speaker 1 25:04

Sure.

Brandon 25:05

Okay, but like, what do you mean by so much longer? Because, like, what are you doing to your books that they're not, like, you know, you a lot of these, you read them once or twice, a couple times, like, maybe the cover falls off, but, like, oh well, whatever. If you like the book that much, so you don't really care, so like they're not. I have no books on my shelf that are disintegrating well, except for one, but it's like a very old history book that I bought at an antique store that doesn't count, like, and these are this is like, if we think about this, is my like book collection here, this is one that's been growing for like many, many, many, many, many years, right? They're, they're fine, you know what I mean? Like, I've had some of these books on my shelf for like 20 years, probably. So, like, I think they're okay, guys. Like, I think it's fine.

Collin Funkhouser 25:55

Yeah,

Brandon 25:56

not to worry that much

Collin Funkhouser 25:59

now. And it just, it gets it speaks to, of sure, if you are using these as objects in a classroom of 10 year olds for reading assignments every year, or whatever, whatever, or like field books for reference. Okay,

Brandon 26:15

that's different,

Collin Funkhouser 26:17

but for, yeah, on your shelf, what marathons are you running with your books,

Speaker 3 26:21

but even

Brandon 26:21

even classroom books, right? Like, I don't know about like third graders, but like we have a like our English teacher in sixth grade to have a giant collection of books, and they're all fine,

Speaker 1 26:32

yeah,

Brandon 26:33

and they get stuffed in lockers, and sometimes you gotta tape the cover back on with like packing tape, and it's fine, that's it, you just need some packing tape, and you're good to go. Like, it's okay.

Collin Funkhouser 26:48

There are people listening to this, and I do have to ask, what's your take on marking in your books?

Brandon 26:58

I like, do I mark in my books

Collin Funkhouser 27:01

well with twofold. Do you do you mark, and are you, or.. and then are you okay with

Brandon 27:09

it? I mean, I don't care. You can do whatever you want. I don't do it, but like I just never seen that as an important thing to do.

Speaker 1 27:20

Sure,

Brandon 27:21

for me as a reader, like, like the annotating thing, and like the putting the the tabs and the highlighting of the stuff, like this assumes that I am going to look at this book a lot, and that is not true, right? Like, I'm just not gonna do that, like, yeah, I will read the book, and then I will, like, I kind of think about the book as a whole, and I don't really digest like little bits and pieces like that, like, you know what I mean, like I'm not like, oh my gosh, this is the best sentence I've ever read, like I don't do that, and you know, so like I don't see the point in doing that, now that this is like a thing that I did in like college when I was like annotating my like books, like my textbooks and things like that, like I was doing that, because like I was going back over and over again in that environment, and like looking for important things, or like that kind of stuff, but like reading for fun, that is not a thing that I feel that I need to do for fun, right? Like, that's just not how I think about it, so I don't care if other people do. It doesn't really bother me. I think sometimes it's kind of weird when I see somebody with like a book and there's like 75 billion tab things in it, and it's just like a random fiction book, right? Like, if this is like your Bible or something, okay? This makes sense to me. This is a thing you're going to go back to over and over again if this is like a book, like for work or something, this makes sense to me, but like if you're just reading like a novel, I don't think this is a very necessary exercise.

Collin Funkhouser 29:15

Sure,

Brandon 29:17

about you, Collin, this thing that you do,

Collin Funkhouser 29:20

it 100% depends on the kind of book that I'm reading, and I'll give you a good example here. I don't know if you're aware of a writer, Bernd Bern Heinrich Bern Heinrich, he's

Brandon 29:37

not familiar.

Collin Funkhouser 29:37

Okay, that's fine. This is why, because he writes like more of a natural history observational biology kind of books. He's, he was an emeritus professor in biology. He's an ultra marathoner. He does all this stuff, where he's like, but what he does is all of his books are like.. so I was sitting at my window watching. The nuthatch eat the whatever, and then it's like this deep, like dense, rigorous scientific research around like really beautiful writing and prose and storytelling, like it's very engaging, and there are times where I will write down to that, not so necessarily for facts, but I love the kind of, oh, this would make a really good illustration or example for teaching xyz, or whenever I'm talking about this example, I'll pull from this, or like, so there are times where I'm reading where things like that will catch my eye, of I want to be able to remember this again, and so I do have a digital note folder for like book examples of and things like that were all kind of like type type out little my annotated bibliography basically of like oh in this book there's something something here that I would like to read again so I will do that but if I'm just reading I don't know what's over here on my like

Brandon 30:58

yeah I mean yeah that makes sense to me but like if you're reading, I don't know, let's pretend you're reading Treasure Island, right? Yeah, this is not really like an exercise.

Collin Funkhouser 31:08

No, no, no, I'm also.. I'm having to turn my head because I've rearranged my bookshelf, so my other books are further, they're further away from me.

Speaker 3 31:18

Oh no,

Collin Funkhouser 31:18

but yeah, if I'm reading, what is this over here? Oh, I have a book over here about, like, the periodic table of elements, and kind of the history about it behind the discoveries of each of those, and the people who are involved in making it. I'm probably not going to annotate that one much, but it's just

Brandon 31:34

sounds like a sweet book, though. I think,

Collin Funkhouser 31:35

yeah, here, let me give you my hold on, let me stand up here.

Brandon 31:41

Definitely read this book. This is the kind of books that I read that sometimes Susan makes fun of me for, right? Like, I like reading a lot of nonfiction. I read nonfiction like all the time.

Collin Funkhouser 31:51

Yes,

Brandon 31:51

and so, and like, very high, she always brings up in conversation that I have a book about the history of the banana, right? Yes, and she likes to just bring that up randomly as like a burn, and I'm like, "Yo, looks good though, like I don't know what you're like. Do you are you happy that you have a refrigerator? Thank you, bananas. Right, like boom,

Collin Funkhouser 32:14

like exactly. No, there's a book like that called, oh yes, Mark Kurlansky does a lot of books like that. One of my favorite ones above him is Salt, where I

Brandon 32:32

have that

Collin Funkhouser 32:32

one. Yeah, I was gonna say this sounds, yeah, so these are my.. yeah, he does, yeah, he's.. yeah, the other one that he read, wrote Cod salmon, what was the other one? Oh, I've

Brandon 32:43

seen the cod one. I think it's on one of my lists.

Collin Funkhouser 32:46

Savannah, the one, the one that I.. my first one that I read by Mark Carlansky was paper paging through history. But my other recommendation

Collin Funkhouser 32:56

is nice.

Collin Funkhouser 32:56

It's called the one I have right now. It's by Hugh Alzeri Williams has called Periodic Tales a cultural history of the elements from arsenic to zinc. This, yes, nice. So this, but yes, I, if I'm reading paper by Mark Kurlansky, I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna be probably doing, yeah, much highlighting in there, but yeah, this is these are the kind of things that I'm a fan of, so yeah, well, yeah, so I do write, or do I do notate in mine, I do mostly underlining, I don't do very many like tabs of different colors and stuff, it's mostly just underlining.

Brandon 33:47

Okay, that works. That's good too. Nice.

Collin Funkhouser 33:52

Yes. So, anyway, goodness. Sorry, I have to stand up and put my book back on my shelf before.

Brandon 33:58

Oh, sorry, I like messed up your vibe here. I messed up the whole flow thing.

Collin Funkhouser 34:09

Brandon 34:11

also have.. oh no, oh, he's.. he's talking really far away. Listeners, I know that you probably want to hear him yell across the room, but I'll save you totally fine. Is it fine? I don't think it's fine. I have a paperback 40 feet away, like

Collin Funkhouser 34:27

I need to find this. I have a paperback from the 50s about nuclear fallout, and I need to, I need to find this somewhere. It's great. It's really fun.

Brandon 34:37

That sounds kind of awesome. Duck and cover, yeah.

Collin Funkhouser 34:42

Pretty much. Enjoy. Oh my goodness.

Speaker 1 34:47

Well, did

Brandon 34:47

you have anything you want to talk about this week, or should we dive into our topic? Collin, what have you been out

Collin Funkhouser 34:53

to? So late in the game, I, I have wanted to. Crawl into a hole. This week we had the carpet installers.

Brandon 35:09

Oh man, oh no. Speaking of moving all the furniture,

Collin Funkhouser 35:14

and so here's the thing, it was like, okay, so we went.. oh, actually, so before this, so on Friday we moved everything out from two rooms, because they were like, we're going to do two rooms in the hallway, and the next day we're going to come out into the other two rooms and the stairs, and I said, "Okay, I'm going to move everything out of the rooms, don't do the rooms with everything in them, and they didn't laugh at me, joke, so

Brandon 35:39

like the surgeon, when you write like cut here, right, like not this one.

Collin Funkhouser 35:53

So that's pretty much what I did. Well, so we then we then went and we took the children and Brandon, they rode their first roller coasters.

Speaker 1 36:07

Oh my,

Collin Funkhouser 36:08

we went

Brandon 36:09

a seminal moment

Collin Funkhouser 36:10

to Silver Dollar City. They're

Brandon 36:12

finally this high.

Brandon 36:13

You met, you made it. Holy,

Speaker 1 36:16

here we go.

Collin Funkhouser 36:17

We did. They are finally able to write everything, and here's what we did. Finally,

Speaker 1 36:24

this tall

Collin Funkhouser 36:26

we went, and of course, I haven't been since Mimi took

Brandon 36:31

us. Oh yeah, a large part of it is the same, I think.

Collin Funkhouser 36:34

Yeah,

Brandon 36:35

because it's been the same for

Collin Funkhouser 36:37

many movies,

Collin Funkhouser 36:40

and I, so we planned everything out, and here was my plan. Here's my plan, Brandon. We were gonna come in, and what, what better way to start? Because I'm like, man, what would be the best, like, intro roller coaster out of everyone that they have now? What's like a good intro, and so I thought to myself, I was like, oh, we're gonna ride Thunderation, the it's like the old one, yeah, still a little spooky, still a little scary, but like it's not, I'm not doing flips, I'm not going sideways, I'm just like getting my kidneys bang to boot, and so we come in. We immediately turn right, and it's not there anymore, is it? It closes down in January

Speaker 2 37:30

this final season. Aha,

Collin Funkhouser 37:34

but it was closed when we first came in, and so I had to go. It

Brandon 37:37

was closed, or it was closing soon. I knew it was going away.

Collin Funkhouser 37:41

Well, they, they were like, "Oh, we don't.. it's not open right now. We don't know how long it's going to take. And I was like, "Well, that's unfortunate.

Speaker 1 37:53

Should be

Brandon 37:53

closed out.

Collin Funkhouser 37:54

Well, and so I was like, "Okay, well, what do we do? So I download the app, and the app will show you what is open, what's closed, and what the approximate wait times are.

Brandon 38:03

Oh, there's stuff fancy schming,

Collin Funkhouser 38:05

so I'm like, huh. Well, I know there's like another wooden roller coaster on here called Outlaw Run. It's another wooden one. I'll ride another wooden roller coaster, Brandon. I've never been so scared in my entire on a roller coaster,

Brandon 38:21

wooden roller coaster is so rickety, right? Like, no, it's like charming, and like, oh, it's so quaint, but it's like bone rattling.

Collin Funkhouser 38:31

No, they're at the drop when you come up. The drop is basically, I came out of my seat dropping straight down, okay. All right, then you don't do a loop de loop, but on one of these things you do a barrel roll that is so tight the only thing holding me in was the pressure against the lap bar, my butt gravity fully out of my seat.

Speaker 2 38:58

Oh no,

Collin Funkhouser 38:58

the entire ride lasts about like 20 seconds. It is the shortest and one of the fastest rides at Silver Dollar City.

Brandon 39:07

It's kind of wild, like,

Collin Funkhouser 39:09

and it is so intense, like

Brandon 39:12

I don't remember it being that intense. I've ridden that one,

Collin Funkhouser 39:15

how long?

Speaker 2 39:15

I don't recall.

Collin Funkhouser 39:16

I may just be just whatever, because then I

Brandon 39:20

wait. I mean, I haven't been to Solar City in like a long time, right? Like, so that is also..

Collin Funkhouser 39:27

well, this will tell you how long it's written. This was open in 2013 Okay, it's been a minute. Yeah, anyway, the kid.. this is the kids' first roller coaster experience, one that I am like shaking, and for how like terrifying they get out, of course. They love it, they're super excited. We go rewrite again immediately. Then I'm like, okay, let me take you to, like, oh, like the scary

Brandon 39:50

one. You're like,

Brandon 39:51

give me some shoulder hardness.

Collin Funkhouser 39:53

Yeah, let's have this. Let

Brandon 39:55

me feel more in

Collin Funkhouser 39:57

this. So then I go, of course, and we go to one. Wildfire, which is like the one where I remember being scared out of my mind with this, is this is a cakewalk, this is nothing that is scary about this compared to our, and I think it is the shoulder hardens, I think it's where you like you're just there along for the ride, and it ended up like we did that one, we did everything that was, we did it all, and they just like ate everything up about it, had a blast. They enjoyed it. I need to send you this video Megan took of them coming out of Outlaw Run again to their first one, and basically

Collin Funkhouser 40:37

running

Brandon 40:37

back to the end of the line. Slack

Speaker 1 40:39

pretty

Collin Funkhouser 40:39

much was, they were like that was tariff. Oh my gosh, I'm so scary. And then Megan said, do I do again? And they like click, yeah. So we ran back, you know, I got to ride everything, the water rides, and I learned that what used to be the Lost River is now the Mystic River, and yeah,

Brandon 41:00

it's gone. It's all weird now.

Collin Funkhouser 41:03

Now, here's the thing: a, you got way more water on you in the old version, and that's because the backs of the little floaty boats had the rope on them, so that whenever you plunge down, the water would come up over your back, and then that can't happen on the new ones, because the backs are solid plastic, and so you don't get that drenched over your shoulders, down your back, horrible feeling. But also, I learned that. Have you, have you ridden this yet?

Brandon 41:38

I haven't written the new one. No. Okay, like I said, I haven't been there in ages. I think the last time I was there was probably around 2013 or 2014 I chaperoned a trip for, like, the school or something, because they were like, 'We need a male, hey Brandy.

Collin Funkhouser 41:52

Yes, well,

Speaker 1 41:54

this is

Brandon 41:54

a long time ago. This is very long time ago.

Collin Funkhouser 41:56

So I discovered, so here's what happens. Remember the old Lost River, where you'd kind of go up this, like there goes like a big plunge at the end, but you went up this weird conveyor belt. Yeah, imagine this, Brandon. Imagine if they're like, 'Huh, I sure would love to have a bigger drop, but a conveyor belt, I can't build one up that high because they don't have that much room. How could I lift a boat of eight people to get a larger drop,

Brandon 42:25

a lock.

Collin Funkhouser 42:26

I know what I'll do. I'll have a giant elevator claw that that pushes you, come up a little escalator that then pushes you onto this platform. Brandon, the platform then raises up, I think, a three stories in the air, and you're just on the platform on the boat, you're sitting in

Collin Funkhouser 42:43

your chair,

Brandon 42:43

little suspects to me, the

Collin Funkhouser 42:44

whole tower,

Collin Funkhouser 42:45

the whole tower turns 180 degrees, this whole tower is rotating constantly as it's picking stuff up, takes you all the way to the top, there's a little conveyor belt on the little pad that you're on, it activates, pushes you out into a slide, a giant slide for your boat, and then you go down the highest drop, like this, for this kind of boat in the Western Hemisphere.

Speaker 1 43:10

Oh, of course,

Collin Funkhouser 43:12

it's terrifying. The scariest part was going up in this little, like, elevator thing,

Speaker 3 43:17

like a rickety,

Speaker 1 43:18

like,

Brandon 43:20

you know, I.. that's one of the things that's weird about Solar City, is it like you, you almost feel like you can't trust everything fully, because everything else is so like old timey and like rusty, that like it's like the esthetics are like that, like it's old and like broken down and stuff, and then you're like trusting this thing to like horse you up in the area, like there's some incongruous thought processes happening right now, and I'm not 100% sure I'm okay.

Collin Funkhouser 43:47

Yes, yeah, now, yeah. So, I trust that some of their, you know, engineering and stuff is fine, but I was terrified, like it was just like, oh, what is going on with all this? So,

Brandon 44:00

did you calm down by going through the flooded mine? Is that still there?

Collin Funkhouser 44:03

I did go through the flooded mine. Yes, I was so happy,

Speaker 1 44:07

and I

Brandon 44:07

love the flooded mine, because it's not hot in there.

Collin Funkhouser 44:09

No,

Brandon 44:11

in the summer it's like all nice, like shade,

Collin Funkhouser 44:14

and it's air conditioned a little bit, because the water is cool, and that's what I told you. I said, this is the refuge for the heat, and if you are competing, this is the spoilers for if you are competing for the highest score on that.

Speaker 1 44:28

Oh,

Collin Funkhouser 44:29

right, don't don't try and hit as many targets as you can.

Brandon 44:34

No, no,

Collin Funkhouser 44:34

you just hit the same one as soon as it comes into range, and you blink that and turn backwards to continue to hit it around some of those corners, so that you can get your high score.

Brandon 44:44

Yeah, you can just hit the same one over and over again, over and it's not a one and done situation. Yes, it is kind of more fun, because some of them like trigger little things, like move around, you know. So that's kind of fun to do, but like,

Collin Funkhouser 44:54

yeah, but if you're in there, if you're competing against people, this is what you do. Don't don't go for a number of targets, just. Hit the same one over into

Brandon 45:01

is the new fire in the hole open,

Collin Funkhouser 45:05

so we had two rides that we wanted to get to, one was the time traveler and one was fire in the hole. Fire in the hole is open.

Brandon 45:16

Okay, the

Collin Funkhouser 45:16

wait times for this were never below 60 minutes

Brandon 45:21

weird.

Collin Funkhouser 45:22

As soon as it was open, it was 60. It was all day, and we left. We got there at nine and left at four.

Brandon 45:30

That's crazy.

Collin Funkhouser 45:31

It never would dip below. We did make it to the time traveler. This is the time. The time traveler is the one where the car goes forwards, but then the seats turn around. Oh,

Brandon 45:45

yeah. Okay,

Collin Funkhouser 45:46

yeah. And this, I have never done a backwards loop de loop before. I'm pretty sure I did one, although it was a bit terrifying, because, and they weren't like it wasn't like the teacup thing, where they're spinning constantly,

Speaker 2 46:04

the death spin of the teacup, it, it,

Speaker 1 46:08

holy,

Brandon 46:09

those are terrifying.

Collin Funkhouser 46:10

They moved at certain intervals at certain times, right? Like, they, they were kind of programmed to move, they weren't just free spinning, yeah. So to kind of give, but what was really cool was you're in the car, okay? There are some forward-facing seats, some backwards-facing seats, and the track exits the little loading area and immediately does a big, quick drop, or not a big, well, not big, not quick, because they're just coming off, but it kind of comes in and drops pretty steeply, and the way they have it programmed is as each car reaches the apex of that, the whole car turns 180 degrees,

Speaker 2 46:46

noise,

Collin Funkhouser 46:46

and so as you're going down, all of a sudden you're turning, and that's when I was like, "Oh, I, this is what I was expecting today. So anyway, we had fun. We rode the train. We did not get to do the mine tour or the cave tour because they were full.

Brandon 47:07

Okay, that's fair.

Collin 47:08

Yeah, fair

Brandon 47:09

enough.

Collin Funkhouser 47:09

So we did that, came back.

Brandon 47:12

What about Grandpa's mansion?

Collin Funkhouser 47:14

Of course.

Brandon 47:15

Okay, okay. Good. All right. Good. I was making sure

Collin Funkhouser 47:17

I was like, we were kind of.. we went there with the idea of, like, let's ride the roller coasters, but, oh, of course, of course, as I'm going around, I'm like, "Oh, yeah, we've gotta, and, "Oh, we have to do the swinging bridge, and, "Oh, we've got to do this, and I can definitely tell what parts of the park my brain has memorized and which parts of the park my brain does not know at all the

Brandon 47:42

balloons, Collin, for like old time sake, ride the balloons,

Collin Funkhouser 47:46

not ride the balloons. We figured this time was for roller coasters. Next time we were gonna do like more like sightsee things.

Collin 47:54

Okay,

Collin Funkhouser 47:55

so anyway, so it was.. it was

Brandon 47:59

nostalgia overwhelmed you, and you're like the balloons. They call me

Collin Funkhouser 48:06

no, that was that was my train. I allowed myself.

Brandon 48:10

Okay, that's fair. That's fair,

Collin Funkhouser 48:11

because I was like, we have to do that.

Brandon 48:13

Oh yeah, you allowed yourself, and Noah totally did it. Wasn't to do that, totally was, yeah.

Collin Funkhouser 48:19

Every time we had to cross pat, we have to walk past the train. He wasn't dragging his feet and slowly melting down before

Brandon 48:27

staring off at the train station like

Brandon 48:30

it's right there, Father. It calls to me

Collin Funkhouser 48:33

now. Megan is not a big roller coaster person, she doesn't, she used to like them, now not so much.

Brandon 48:44

I'm surprised that you, well, I mean, somebody had to go with the children, right? But, like, you famous for not liking heights, even a little bit,

Collin Funkhouser 48:54

and suddenly, like, sure, strap me in, let's go. I don't know what it is, I don't know what disconnects

Speaker 3 49:00

the speed,

Collin Funkhouser 49:02

I think I think I told, because I was also remarking about this to Megan, of I have ridden a carousel where that you're just kind of going in a circle and going down, and I have gotten nauseous and had to get off, otherwise I was going to vomit, but roller coasters, I don't have that problem at all, and I think it's just because it's not the same motion over and over and over.

Collin 49:26

That's

Brandon 49:27

true. Yeah,

Collin Funkhouser 49:27

it's just like those

Brandon 49:29

dumb teacups just like relentlessly spinning at warp speed, because

Speaker 1 49:32

yes,

Collin Funkhouser 49:33

around in a circle, yes, that like we, because, yeah, like when we go to the state fair, they've got a few of those things where it's like you're in an apple and you spin around and then you have a little control where you whole thing and spin, I cannot do those, but I can do a roller coaster because it's not rhythmic or the same or any sort of things, I don't get a resident freeze,

Speaker 1 49:52

also

Brandon 49:52

more adrenaline in a roller coaster, right, you get like that, like adrenaline spike, you're like the dopamine, it's like, yeah, like. A million miles an hour, yeah,

Collin Funkhouser 50:03

yeah. So it was, it was a success. I did. We got, we had like one ticket that was free. We bought some, like, we found some cheaper things. The thing I did splurge on, though, I did pay for upgraded parking, because,

Brandon 50:20

wow,

Collin Funkhouser 50:22

wow, you

Brandon 50:23

didn't want to ride the tram from 800 miles away, like down at the bottom, like that, like weird gravel lot that's like literally three miles away from the park on there,

Collin Funkhouser 50:36

and,

Collin Funkhouser 50:37

and what you don't, which you can't beat people, if you're listening

Speaker 1 50:40

Brandon 50:40

this, I always just drive straight back there. I don't even mess with it. I'm just like, nah, we're going to the back.

Speaker 1 50:44

It's

Collin Funkhouser 50:44

again just the distance, it's the elevation

Speaker 1 50:47

change

Brandon 50:48

that is true. Is on the side of like 40 degree incline flight every

Collin Funkhouser 50:56

you will pattern in your soles of your shoes.

Brandon 51:00

Listeners who have never had the experience of Branson, Missouri, right? What you need to understand is Branson is basically built on a ridge,

Collin Funkhouser 51:09

right?

Collin Funkhouser 51:09

Yes,

Brandon 51:09

and like they just cram as much stuff as feasible on top of this little small ridge plateau, and then everything else is on the steepest hill you've ever seen like San Francisco. Who never heard of her? Right? Like, get out. These are

Speaker 3 51:25

out.

Brandon 51:26

These are badly engineered roads that are like vertical at some points. They're like, what's a switchback? We didn't care, like that. I don't,

Collin Funkhouser 51:36

yeah, he'll be fine. Just walk slower.

Brandon 51:38

They just like, I don't know how the gravel stays in those parking lots, because like one rain and it's all at the bottom, like, but they just like it feels like they just like cleared the trees and just like threw some gravel in a field, they're like, "yep, done, got it.

Collin Funkhouser 51:56

That's exactly what they did, and so no, I, I wanted to have other memories insert with my children. First, we will do

Brandon 52:04

the okay fair

Speaker 1 52:05

March

Collin Funkhouser 52:05

of Death later, but we did. We didn't upgrade the parking, not like the full, like I'm knocking on the front door

Brandon 52:13

valet. Yeah, like,

Collin Funkhouser 52:15

do that. I was like, I'm not.. that's the jump. Like, here's the thing, free parking is free parking, you ride the tram, and you risk the upgraded parking was $22

Brandon 52:27

Okay, that's kind of what the

Collin Funkhouser 52:28

tram, but the tram, but listen to this, the like next tier was $70

Brandon 52:35

okay, that's insanity,

Collin Funkhouser 52:36

and that

Brandon 52:37

steal your dollar holler indeed. Holy cow, what the heck?

Collin Funkhouser 52:40

I was like, okay, no, I will show not I will seed you 22 of my buckaroos here, that is fine, but no, I can't, I can't do 70, so

Brandon 52:51

that's insanity,

Collin Funkhouser 52:52

yeah, it was like that, is that is insane, and the one, the one thing that I will lament, that I did know was gone was the mine restaurant?

Brandon 53:02

It was not there.

Collin Funkhouser 53:03

It is gone. It closed during Covid, and it never reopened.

Brandon 53:07

No way.

Collin Funkhouser 53:08

It's now something called, like, the mills, something, something. It's

Speaker 2 53:11

boring, yo. Concept, like, not

Brandon 53:14

the one. No,

Collin Funkhouser 53:15

not the underground. I think it still is underground, but it's not like themed, and all that stuff, and that's again the place to go in the summer, because it's underground. It's, yeah, it's not hot. Yeah, it's not an outdoor like walk up here's hot hot dog on

Brandon 53:32

behind the summer. The thing that really sucks is it's not, it doesn't suck, but like in the thing, it's like brutal, and I don't know how those people are alive, but like the people that are cooking outside, and that like a massive skillet thing. Yes, right, it's like a four foot skillet, and they're just out there cooking the whatever, and it's like a billion degrees, and they're in their costume, and they're next to like the world's giant biggest like skillet thing. Like, how are you alive right now? Like, what is happening? That's insanity. It

Speaker 1 54:02

makes

Collin Funkhouser 54:02

no sense. But the kids had a blast seeing

Speaker 1 54:06

all dude.

Brandon 54:07

Did you get pop guns? Collin, that's the other question.

Collin Funkhouser 54:10

I did. We did not.

Speaker 2 54:11

Okay, because the other thing come in, the other thing, Megan, what's that over there?

Collin Funkhouser 54:18

We have that. We have to get is the this the saloon of the saloon

Collin Funkhouser 54:26

photo?

Speaker 1 54:27

Yes,

Collin Funkhouser 54:27

yes, good. The saloon photo,

Brandon 54:30

Susan, and I have a saloon photo somewhere.

Collin Funkhouser 54:31

I think you do. I do

Speaker 1 54:33

think I

Brandon 54:33

do.

Collin Funkhouser 54:33

I know this. You

Collin 54:35

do. What

Brandon 54:36

happened? I'm gonna ask her about photo.

Collin Funkhouser 54:37

We also have to get the root beer, can't the bottled root beer there. Oh

Brandon 54:42

yeah,

Collin Funkhouser 54:43

my all-time favorite root beer.

Brandon 54:46

That's pretty good root beer.

Collin Funkhouser 54:46

That's fair. I love it, mostly because I just remember drinking like seven of them in a day, because it was so hot, and I was just drinking ice cold. Anyway, that's me. So we've got to get that next. There's these things that I gotta

Speaker 2 54:58

go. That's fair. You get this, but

Brandon 55:01

that's cool. Yeah, we went on the mission this time, and next time is slowly introduce your children to the nostalgia factor, right? Yes, the second trip is where that happens.

Speaker 1 55:08

Yes,

Collin Funkhouser 55:08

we've locked it in,

Brandon 55:09

blocks it in,

Collin Funkhouser 55:10

tough. Yeah, that was, uh, that was that. And then on Monday, we came back, and they started our carpets, and I will keep this, I will keep this short, because I know we're going long, but

Brandon 55:23

were you here?

Collin Funkhouser 55:24

I do

Collin Funkhouser 55:25

need to report on this. I am, I am sitting in a house full of carpet and devoid of my family, because they did

Brandon 55:39

all of that new carpet smell,

Collin Funkhouser 55:40

as I was. It's the off-gassing brand in the off gas. It's fair. So I'm home getting the carcinogens and the whatever, but all of our windows are open. Okay, my fans are blowing, and everything's like that. But

Brandon 55:53

how did they go? What did you do with

Collin Funkhouser 55:54

Megan's folks? They're staying at Megan's. So sleep over at Anna Pops, but they came over. They did the thing on Monday. I then switched it over, and one of my biggest fears going into this was that I was going to pick something that I hated, and we

Brandon 56:19

well documented.

Collin Funkhouser 56:20

Yes. Well, documented. This has some conversations. May have happened. Yes, and

Brandon 56:26

several weeks worth of

Collin Funkhouser 56:27

that. Megan and I went through like excruciating details, through like texture, height, coloration, pattern, all sorts of things on this. We had swatches and samples galore all over our house, and I just, we finally had to say we're just going to pick the least offensive one, and just we'll just have to do it, we'll just have to do it, and I am here to say that officially we, I made a bad choice for our stairs carpet, it is not good. It is not happy with it. It's not a good carpet. And here are the reasons. Thus, no. I know, I know. I, the main carpet throughout the rest of the upstairs, it's fine. It's good. I'm glad we went with it. It probably could have been darker, whatever. And this is the annoying part, where ultimately it's a, the installers did their job. However, I don't know, Brandon, let's say you came into a home, or the owner let you in to the home, and then they said, I'm not coming back today, and then you finished your job, and then you left. Would you lock the front door?

Brandon 57:48

Of course not. I just leave it. I'd probably leave it wide open,

Collin 57:51

you know.

Collin Funkhouser 57:52

I'm surprised they didn't, because I came home to an unlocked front door, and I called, and I said, Is it standard practice for you to leave the doors unlocked, and they said, "Well, you didn't tell us to lock it. We don't know your schedule, Collin, and you didn't know to lock the.. you can ask. You have my phone number. You literally know where I live. You can contact me and ask what I want. Oh, so anyway, anyway, the installers did nothing wrong on the stairs. Now, what we did is we, we have our plush kind of monotone, whatever main carpet, it's speckled, so it hides stuff in it, whatever it's.. then we were told that the thing to do these days is that people get a some sort of a patterned carpet on their stairs, it's a shorter pile, but it's supposed to match the main carpet, and the way they make this work is on when you go and pick your carpet, everything in a similar row in the same row can go with one another, they've been, they've been designed to mix and match, right, okay? Pick whatever in the same row,

Brandon 59:03

picking up what you're putting down here,

Collin Funkhouser 59:04

as you, as you start at the, imagine a grid, and at the top of the grid are all very light colors, and then you work down, and they get darker and more solid, but everything in the rows is can be paired, and so I was like, fine, pick this in, this. There's a pattern. Put it in. Well, here's here's Collin asks 1000 different questions. It took Collin three and a half months to pick this.

Speaker 1 59:32

Yeah,

Collin Funkhouser 59:33

here are things and considerations that Collin didn't take into account.

Speaker 3 59:38

Oh no,

Collin Funkhouser 59:40

will having a shorter pile, shorter carpet on the stairs show more old home things on the stairs than a taller pile? The answer is show more of them, as the fact that my.

Speaker 1 1:00:00

Hairs

Collin Funkhouser 1:00:00

are not quite even to the left and right, so what happens is, is that they can only cut the carpet to one width. Now, if you have a short pile like mine, that means that the pile will not hide the fact that sometimes the edge of the carpet is a, is a pencil's width away from the edge of the wood for the wall. If I had a higher pile, it would just fold, float, fold over, and you couldn't see that gap. Um, with short pile, gap, gap, gap, gap, gap, gap, gap, all the way up, because it's just, it's just, is what it is, right? Okay, so that was my mistake. One, I guess I didn't, I didn't ask that question, right? I didn't think about that.

Speaker 2 1:00:46

I mean, that's fair, like you know.

Collin Funkhouser 1:00:48

Okay. Secondly, on the little swatch that they give you, it is a four is a six inch, five by four inch rectangle. What I didn't realize is that when there's a lot more of that carpet, it picks up a pattern of striations, and what they do is because of the weaving, as I found out today when I called and had my concerns, is they put those striations going up and down the stairs, as opposed to left and right, because of as that folds, so that striation is actually a break in the weave pattern, and if it hits that curve at the edge of the stair, it's going to be very funny. Yeah, and so they put these up and down. Upon looking at this, it looks like a stupid runway, and I hate the lines going up. I hate them with a burning passion. I cannot stand. I cannot explain to you enough the overwhelming unease and disgust I have walking up my stairs in these all these little tiny lines and rows, like somebody's doing a big planting of corn coming up and down, I just coupled with the gaps and closeness discrepancies as you go left and right all the way up, and you can see, oh, there's shadow here because there's a gap, and then there's no gap in the gap, and then no gap. I also learned that when you put on stairs, they don't rightfully, rightfully, rightfully so. Should have known this. There's no of the nail rails, or whatever they have, whatever those are called, right? Oh, yeah, they don't put those on the walking surface, because you're going to impale your foot. Yeah, well, on a thicker carpet, when you press in the middle of the stair stair, because it's thicker, you don't notice, so that the top, the surface of the step, nothing is nailed down there. Okay,

Brandon 1:02:50

yeah.

Collin Funkhouser 1:02:51

Now, when you have a thicker pile, a thicker carpet, when you press in the middle, it's absorbed by the carpet itself, and you don't notice any flex, flex of that stair pad. When it's shorter, it's more rigid. So, as I step on it, I can notice, because I do this, I watch, and I can notice the edges of the steps just flex a little up, because I stepped in the middle. Right now, this will decrease, hopefully, as I swear, as it wears in, but as I right now, the little edges go flip, flip as you step up on this, because it's deforming and it's forcing

Collin Funkhouser 1:03:30

them in the other way, and so again,

Brandon 1:03:38

don't worry, Collin, your children are gonna run up downstairs about four 50 billion times in the next two days, and so I break in period will be quite quick. They may even wear off some of the little liney things, right?

Collin Funkhouser 1:03:53

No, these are woven in there, these part of

Brandon 1:03:56

it I believe

Speaker 1 1:03:57

Collin Funkhouser 1:03:58

after all of my questions in color and wear and patterns and stuff, and at no point did thickness come into play, and so again I have to reiterate the installers are fantastic, they did, they did a great job with everything except the door, but that and

Speaker 2 1:04:18

the

Collin Funkhouser 1:04:19

carpet is functioning as it should, right? It's, it's these are all care, these are all known characteristics, just not known characteristics to me, because

Brandon 1:04:40

maybe all right, Collin.

Collin Funkhouser 1:04:41

I will. Well, and here's the other thing, I'm still waiting to do our kitchen floors. I'm waiting to hear back from that guy. So, no anxiety, carpet debacle, and my immense regrets. So,

Brandon 1:04:55

I better be prepared. Watch out.

Collin Funkhouser 1:04:59

Try not to cross over my frustrations. They're different, they're separate. This bucket for the carpet, this bucket for the kitchen. But anyway, so I'm.. that's where I were coming in. You catch me on a day where I saw my stairs for the first time.

Brandon 1:05:15

That's fair.

Speaker 1 1:05:16

I'm

Brandon 1:05:17

sorry. Sorry, this has distressed you greatly.

Collin Funkhouser 1:05:21

I've learned better. That's what I.. I called there were, because the unfortunate part was they called and they asked for my opinion, and this is where I was like, oh no, no, you shouldn't have done that. And so I was like, I really tried to be like somewhat positive, but I could not hide my disgust with what was happening in front of me. And so eventually I was just like I have learned today very expensive lesson, and I told her, I told him, I said I'm really disappointed in the outcome of this, and I will make sure it doesn't happen again, but thanks, like I like I felt so bad, because, but they were like, "What do you think of it? I'm like, "Gotta be honest, this is horrible.

Speaker 2 1:06:10

Oh dear, yes. Well, Kyle, let's distract you.

Collin Funkhouser 1:06:15

Ah, carpet, yes,

Brandon 1:06:18

by our unveiling,

Collin Funkhouser 1:06:20

unveiling

Brandon 1:06:21

of our summer reading,

Speaker 2 1:06:23

right,

Collin Funkhouser 1:06:23

summer reading. I'm going to start calling it our summer reading program, even though it's not a program flows off the top a bit. That's

Brandon 1:06:32

okay, I'm okay with this. We can make stickers, it'll be fine. Um, so I is interesting, right? This is listeners, listeners. I need Collin, I need your opinion, right. We have decided that we are going to read a science fiction novel for the summer, right now. Also, this is very humorous to me, just personally, because we are coming off the back of reading Great Expectations, the oldest novel that we have ever read. We're diving right into the most recent novel we have ever read, is published in 1985

Collin Funkhouser 1:07:10

Uh, huh, right. Great.

Brandon 1:07:12

So I think I like this juxtaposition as well. I mean, you could not be more opposite Great Expectations, really, or I mean, I guess we'll see before we unveil the name of the novel. Khan, I want to know, your do you have science fiction reading experience? Is this a genre that you read?

Collin Funkhouser 1:07:31

This is not a genre that I read. No, me neither. No, and I was even trying to go back and be like, what are some other science fiction books that I may have read, and gotta be honest, I'm like, I barely remember Brave New World, and then, like, some Orson Wells, maybe, maybe, I, you know, that would classify, right? Like,

Brandon 1:08:12

yeah, I think I have read The Time Machine,

Collin Funkhouser 1:08:14

Time Machine,

Speaker 1 1:08:14

that's

Speaker 2 1:08:15

true.

Collin Funkhouser 1:08:15

I've read Journey to the Sin of the Earth, which

Brandon 1:08:18

I have read a few. I have read some Vern, Vern,

Collin Funkhouser 1:08:21

sorry, sorry, Verne, Vern was my next one, sorry, sorry, yeah,

Brandon 1:08:23

Journey Center, Earth is Jules Verne, I think I read that one, I can't remember which Verne I have read, I know I've read definitely Journey to Center of the Earth, I think I may have read The Earth to the Moon also, yeah, yeah, when I was around

Collin Funkhouser 1:08:35

the world in 80 days,

Brandon 1:08:36

oh yeah, the one

Collin Funkhouser 1:08:37

that I've read,

Brandon 1:08:37

lots of Vern,

Collin Funkhouser 1:08:39

yeah, mostly Vern, actually, is what we say. It's mostly this is mostly Vern.

Brandon 1:08:44

Yeah, so when I've always talked about my random pile of small mass market paperbacks that I have on my shelf, those are pretty much the only science fiction books that I have here. They appear to be.. hold on, hold on.. they appear to be things like Planet of the Apes, 2001 A Space Odyssey. Okay, something called More Than Human, which I vaguely remember, and some Beyond the Horizon, Little Robert Heinlein in there as well. So that's pretty much it. I don't really remember when I read these books. Yeah, so I don't either. I ever, I have some books on my shelf that I would call science fiction adjacent, right? Like they are thriller novels, but they have a bit of sciencey stuff in them.

Collin Funkhouser 1:09:35

Well,

Brandon 1:09:36

right, like there's some, like, there's like things like something under the ice in Antarctica, right, but it's like it's a thriller novel, right, so it's not really science fiction, it's

Collin Funkhouser 1:09:46

even like Frankenstein, right, is another kind of like, like science fictiony, but like

Collin Funkhouser 1:09:53

that's

Brandon 1:09:53

generally considered like the sci-fi book, first one, right,

Collin Funkhouser 1:09:57

yes,

Brandon 1:09:57

right, technically we. You might be able to class Connecticut Yankee as sci-fi, because it's a time travel book, kind of, sort of, maybe. Okay, a little bit, but I don't think it's not really supposed to be a sci-fi book. It's more of a social commentary, as we have discussed ad nauseum. And apart from my random couple of books on my bookshelf, the only other books that I have read are Star Wars extended universe novels, when I was in middle school,

Speaker 1 1:10:27

okay,

Brandon 1:10:27

I read a ton of those. That's kind of where my science fiction novel book kind of ends. This is a genre that I engage with much more in movies and video games, right? This is a thing where I find myself engaging with it. There, Collin, I have for you a brief top five random sci-fi video games that I remembered about today.

Collin Funkhouser 1:10:51

Duh,

Brandon 1:10:52

like my top five.

Collin Funkhouser 1:10:53

Yes.

Brandon 1:10:56

Also, I've noticed that most of these are not like when a lot of people think about science fiction, they do think about, like, space.

Speaker 1 1:11:03

Yeah, right.

Brandon 1:11:04

I don't think this is the kind of science fiction that I usually engage with, because my, a lot of these other things are like dystopiany, kind of like that is also technically sci-fi, like post-apocalyptic e, that's also sci-fi. Yeah, oh, I have Orson Welles, actually, by the way. Anyway, so top five sci-fi games, video games that I remembered and have played recently, relatively recently, are as follows. Right? Number five, Assassin's Creed is a science fiction video game, technically, right, because it's all about exploring history through the DNA of random people trying to uncover the secrets of the precursor civilization, and go, yeah, kind of weird. There's a lot of science in there, so I'm gonna go Assassin's Creed. I'm gonna put the syndicate, Assassin's Creed Syndicate, because it's set in Victorian London, and it's fun, and it's stabby stabby. I'm currently trying to finish Assassin's Creed Valhalla. That is definitely not the best game. It's too long, and there's too much repetition. Anyway, number four, I put The Outer Worlds. It's like a space game, and it's about, like, what if space had over abundance of capitalism, so it's like a satirical version of, like, terrible space feature. I put Gears of War on this

Brandon 1:12:33

because

Brandon 1:12:34

it's like it's on a planet, and there's like other ads, technically science fiction. I think it's kind of like apocalyptic e, I put cyberpunk on here, it's like very, I mean, it's like the genre-defining thing, cyberpunk 2077 and then I put Metro 2033 which is like very post-apocalyptic e terrible, I put the first one because it's like horrifying, Audible mentions go to, of course, Halo, someone's gonna be mad at it, Mission Halo. Oh, sorry, I put Bioshock, because that's technically science fiction. It's just like science fiction from the 1940s right? Like, and of course, any Star Wars video game

Collin Funkhouser 1:13:12

at all.

Brandon 1:13:14

I put the newest ones, The Fallen Order, and then like Jedi Survivor, or whatever, but we can't forget my original OG Star Wars video game, Dark Forces,

Collin Funkhouser 1:13:25

Dark Forces.

Brandon 1:13:26

Shout out Dark Forces.

Collin Funkhouser 1:13:30

Okay, yeah, I'm surprised you didn't know no Warhammer 40k

Brandon 1:13:34

Yeah, no, I'm not a big Warhammer. Sorry, Henry Cavill and Aaron, I

Collin Funkhouser 1:13:39

or the Emperor.

Speaker 2 1:13:40

Yeah, I know.

Brandon 1:13:41

I don't know what that means. I do think, Collin, that after this, I can.. I interest you in a top five science fiction movie list,

Collin Funkhouser 1:13:55

1,000%

Speaker 4 1:13:56

When we're

Brandon 1:13:56

done with this book,

Collin Funkhouser 1:13:57

I'm actively making my list right now. That's

Brandon 1:14:00

fine, just because that is, that's another medium in which I much more I engage with the genre much more in movies and video games, and then not so much reading. So we're gonna attempt to rectify that. Collin, tell them what we've chosen.

Collin Funkhouser 1:14:19

Ah, we have chosen what some may say is the quintessential reading for sci-fi, and that is Ender's Game Orson Scott Card.

Brandon 1:14:34

Yeah, this was on whenever I was looking at lists of sci-fi after we decided sci-fi, and I was just looking at random lists, and I watch a bunch of videos, people's like, "Oh, these are the best, like, sci-fi books in my opinion, like this book was on a ton of people's lists.

Collin Funkhouser 1:14:49

Yeah,

Speaker 2 1:14:50

so we're gonna see how right they are.

Collin Funkhouser 1:14:54

I, in looking, I have read nothing about this, um. I mean, I've read like the brief little intro thing. Oh, yeah, I know spoilers.

Speaker 2 1:15:03

No, no, no.

Collin Funkhouser 1:15:04

Um, but I quickly got like a little overwhelmed because apparently there's like a series of this.

Brandon 1:15:12

Oh yeah, this is also interesting. This is the first book in a series I think we've read.

Collin Funkhouser 1:15:18

Yes,

Brandon 1:15:19

right. This is book one

Collin Funkhouser 1:15:21

one

Brandon 1:15:21

of whatever the Ender saga,

Collin Funkhouser 1:15:24

that's where I got confused, because of like, oh, look, Ender's Game, and then it was like Ender's Game in, like one, and then like the Ender, like, oh, what, hold on, yeah,

Brandon 1:15:35

I was unaware, also until like the many lists in, they were like, "Oh, yeah, this one, somebody at some point was like, actually, the sequel, I think, is better, and I was like, "What do you mean? What do you mean? So, yeah, that's what we're, yeah, there you go. So I know really nothing about Andrew's game. There's a spaceship on the front of this book.

Collin Funkhouser 1:16:04

Yes,

Brandon 1:16:05

that's all I got, right? I think, yeah. So, we'll see, right? I did read.. whoops, that kind of notably Orson Scott Card, kind of a jerk, right? Like, that's what..

Collin Funkhouser 1:16:21

oh no, oh no. We have, we have to have a disclaimer.

Collin Funkhouser 1:16:28

Yeah, yeah,

Brandon 1:16:28

it was one of those, like, like a bunch of people were like, yeah, notable jerk, Orson Scott Carter's like, oh cool. Okay. Well, well, so I don't know, I didn't research this too much, because I kind of was just going blind here, because this is such a new book, and I don't like really know anything about this, but yeah, I know there's a spaceship here, so this is like we're diving in kind of hardcore with like spacey sci-fi,

Collin Funkhouser 1:17:00

yep,

Brandon 1:17:01

there's some aliens here. I'm assuming there's some.. the back of the book tells me this is about a battle school, right? And I think Ender is a young person,

Collin Funkhouser 1:17:12

okay,

Brandon 1:17:13

attending a battle school to train humans to fight against alien things.

Collin Funkhouser 1:17:23

Okay.

Brandon 1:17:24

Yes.

Collin Funkhouser 1:17:24

Okay.

Brandon 1:17:25

There we go. There we go. Also, weird about my version of the book that I got. Again, this reading is a hashtag not sponsored, brought to you by Thrift Books. Because, yes, and I don't. But this version has an introduction by the author, which is kind of weird, perfect. Not, it's not a normal..

Collin Funkhouser 1:17:48

it was gone. It was the 80s, it was true. It was a crazy heady time.

Brandon 1:17:52

Now, I did.. I did read this. Is the.. this is the older version from like the early 90s, I think, because I did read that he went back and changed a few things after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, right? Like, he was just referring to the Soviets, or whatever, or something, and, like, he just took that stuff out.

Speaker 3 1:18:13

I love every bit of that,

Brandon 1:18:17

right? So, I think I think I read that somewhere that he changed just some references to, like, there were references, weirdly, because this is supposed to be like the future, right? So I don't know why we're still referencing the Soviet Union, but you know this, it was written in 1985 so we're still cold worry, so like you know, you just write about what's happening, kind of, because it is about Earth, so like he wrote that, and I think he went back and just made a few little tweaks to things after that happened. After that major world-changing event occurred, he was like, "Oh, I probably take out the references to that.

Collin Funkhouser 1:18:57

So, my version is also from 1991

Brandon 1:19:00

Yeah, I think that's what mine

Collin Funkhouser 1:19:01

is, so

Brandon 1:19:02

I think it's what it says in here.

Collin Funkhouser 1:19:04

At least that's what the, the intro, his,

Brandon 1:19:07

the copyright thing says.

Collin Funkhouser 1:19:09

Yeah.

Brandon 1:19:10

Oh, did we have the.. do we have this thing? Do you have a physical book of this?

Collin Funkhouser 1:19:13

No, no. Okay, I have a digital.. okay, I have a.. yeah, my version of it.

Brandon 1:19:18

Okay, my intro. yeah, my little introduction thing he wrote, it says March 91

Collin Funkhouser 1:19:23

Yes, so I have the same thing.

Brandon 1:19:26

Okay, so it's probably that's probably just the version that they went with after that.

Collin Funkhouser 1:19:29

Yes,

Brandon 1:19:30

right. Dang, should have tried to get a pre 90 copy, that would go. I'm not worried about that. Not really interested in my first edition Enders game. Don't really care that much, but there we go.

Collin Funkhouser 1:19:42

Hold on, let's see here.

Brandon 1:19:48

Listen, I'm definitely not getting letting DHL mess with that. Who knows when he'll show up? Okay, don't remember that. So,

Collin Funkhouser 1:19:54

you know what? Apparently, Abe, the good old Abe Boo. Books got one on there, $10

Brandon 1:20:07

All right, nevermind. All right, there we go.

Collin Funkhouser 1:20:09

Think maybe,

Brandon 1:20:11

maybe. No, it's fine.

Collin Funkhouser 1:20:13

Oh, okay. Never mind. No Burnside rare books. Got it. Boom. Brandon, first edition, first printing signed by Orson Scott Card. I

Brandon 1:20:26

really care that much.

Collin Funkhouser 1:20:27

Okay, bound in the blue paper covered boards over dark blue cloth effect, spine lettered in silver, near fine with lightwear to spine in and corner, sub abrasions to bottom and edge front book cover. A fine near fine unclipped dust jacket with light edge wear and faint rubbing in Verso, a great copy of the 1985 Nebula and 1986 Hugo Awards for best novel, scarce signed item, yours, yours from Burnside books.com $4,800

Brandon 1:20:55

Oh no, thanks. I'm good. Oh, okay, okay, fine. Anyway, it's just there, yeah. The this book is apparently a Hugo and Nebula award-winning novel. Yeah, that's good. Those are science fiction awards that I heard on videos. So, yes. Also, this is the shortest book we've written in quite a while,

Collin Funkhouser 1:21:22

only 15 chapters, and they're not very long at all.

Brandon 1:21:24

No, it's a, it's a burner, so we can think about, or finally talk about how we don't have to talk right now, but we can talk about the pacing that we want to set for this, because we don't want to be over in like two weeks, but like It drag it out a little bit here,

Collin Funkhouser 1:21:44

because when I'm like, well, two chapters, it's not a whole lot to talk about, but also three, that's only five weeks of content.

Brandon 1:21:51

Yeah, so

Collin Funkhouser 1:21:53

maybe we'll, hey, we'll just read the whole Ender series.

Brandon 1:21:59

I mean, if they're all this long, that wouldn't be that big,

Collin Funkhouser 1:22:03

though. Considering how Connecticut Yankee King Arthur killed us trying to get through all of that book that never ended, that's true.

Brandon 1:22:13

That's true. You could storm through these like, so we'll see.

Collin Funkhouser 1:22:19

Yeah, we'll talk about pacing. Okay, then yes, I definitely am down for the top five draft for best

Brandon 1:22:30

sci-fi movies. Yeah, I think that's gonna be good. That's some potential stormers on there, maybe not best, maybe favorites, because again, there's a big difference between good movies and movies I like, right? Like, they're not always great, like I like them, but they might not be like Cisco and Ebert.

Collin Funkhouser 1:22:51

It's a poor draft for our..

Brandon 1:22:53

that's true. Yeah, my best movie.

Collin Funkhouser 1:22:56

No, no, no. As we.. it is canonical that all of ours are are are the best definitive top five.

Brandon 1:23:05

Okay, all right. Well, we're gonna keep that going

Collin Funkhouser 1:23:07

to this.

Brandon 1:23:07

Yeah, yeah,

Collin Funkhouser 1:23:09

don't tarnish our brand here.

Brandon 1:23:11

Okay, sorry. Yeah, definitive best top five sci-fi movies, according to me, Collin. Yeah, we'll see how much overlap is on this list.

Collin Funkhouser 1:23:20

I don't know. know. Oh man,

Speaker 1 1:23:24

oh, so yes.

Brandon 1:23:26

Favorite part is seeing if there's.. how the overlap works. Yeah, that's my favorite part about the list.

Collin Funkhouser 1:23:31

I know, I know, I'm very excited for this. Yes, so yes, good stuff. Okay. Well, uh, I has haiku all right here. I think we can do that. I think so. Okay, let me. They smiled and explained everything after signing. Too late for regrets, I Oh, I'll be fine with my carpet. It'll be okay. I'll get over it eventually. It's, it's, it's gonna be fine. It's just its first day, you know? Just buyer's remorse and decisions fatigue. So, yes, it'll be fine. Let it go. Okay, it'll grow on me. I'm sure I'll find some character in it that I desire, that I love. But

Brandon 1:24:27

yes, yes,

Collin Funkhouser 1:24:29

that's what I'll focus on. Okay, stop thinking about it. My power went off at 1am this morning, and so I was up, and I was like, ooh, I'll know what I'll do. I'll get my flashlight out, and I'll go up and down the stairs, so I can.

Collin Funkhouser 1:24:41

Don't know,

Brandon 1:24:43

just asking. You're just looking for flaws now. This is okay. We just have to embrace Collin. Collin, I need you to embrace the carpet wabi sabi. Okay, that's what I need right now.

Collin 1:24:59

What. You do carpet wabi zabi,

Speaker 1 1:25:02

yes.

Collin 1:25:02

Gonna go, but I have to walk down it to get downstairs.

Brandon 1:25:08

It's fine. Don't be safe on the stairs, use the railing. Okay, we know how coordinated you are. Please

Speaker 1 1:25:16

don't

Brandon 1:25:17

fall down the stairs with your family gone.

Collin Funkhouser 1:25:19

I know, broken at the bottom of the steps.

Brandon 1:25:22

Yeah, Megan won't be there to hear you crashing down the stairs. All right, sir.

Collin Funkhouser 1:25:25

What happened? I couldn't bear to look at it.

Brandon 1:25:29

Yeah, that's getting getting blood stains all over your carpet is not a good reason to get new carbocation

Speaker 3 1:25:36

would cover it. Then

Speaker 2 1:25:39

no,

Speaker 3 1:25:40

allegedly. I'll

Collin Funkhouser 1:25:46

behave all

Collin Funkhouser 1:25:48

right. So

Collin Funkhouser 1:25:49

we will, we will come back storming into Ender's Game next.

Brandon 1:25:54

Yes,

Collin Funkhouser 1:25:54

next time,

Brandon 1:25:55

next time.

Collin Funkhouser 1:25:56

Okay. Let's look forward to

Brandon 1:25:58

indeed.

Collin Funkhouser 1:25:59

Love you,

Brandon 1:26:00

love you,

Collin Funkhouser 1:26:00

bye bye.